They took their time ending wars in the 18th century, when all they had was dial-up, and cell phone service was worse than AT&T’s. British Major General Cornwallis had surrendered to George Washington almost 2 years before, ending the American Revolution, but it took that long to give us a reason to celebrate NATIONAL TREATY […]
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 9/3/26 – TREATY OF PARIS DAY! Read More »
“Lafayette, we are here,” said General John Pershing when the American Expeditionary Force landed in France during World War 1. He was referring to a 140 year-old debt to France for the services of one of their generals, who we salute on NATIONAL LAFAYETTE DAY! Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette, better
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 6/13/26 – LAFAYETTE DAY! Read More »
Wars are expensive, and nobody knew that better than Napoleon Bonaparte, who was forced to unload some prime real estate for a lousy 42¢ an acre to pay for his latest contretemps with the British Empire, making today NATIONAL LOUISIANA PURCHASE DAY! The year was 1803, and Napoleon had learned the hard way in Russia
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 3/10/26 – LOUISIANA PURCHASE DAY! Read More »
In the 18th Century, Jean Pierre Blanchard was a household name. In the Blanchard household, anyway. Born in France in 1750, he was the first to fly in the Americas, more than a century before the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk, making today NATIONAL BALLOON ASCENSION DAY! On January 9, 1793, outside the walls
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 1/9/26 – BALLOON ASCENSION DAY! Read More »
On this date in 1845 the Republic of Texas ceased to exist and the 28th State was admitted to the Union, making today NATIONAL TEXAS STATEHOOD DAY! The nation born of insurrection against Mexico and remembering the Alamo became America’s largest state that December 29, 1845. Texas is larger than France and chock full of
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/29/25 – TEXAS STATEHOOD DAY! Read More »
80 years ago today, December 16, 1944, Allied troops were settling in for the winter, having successfully invaded and liberated Nazi-occupied France and Belgium, forcing the mighty Wehrmacht into retreat and disarray. The war in Europe was widely considered all but won. By the Allies, anyway, but Germany had one more major offensive up its
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/16/25- BATTLE OF THE BULGE DAY! Read More »
Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the highest stakes poker game ever played, one that terrified the entire world on INTERNATIONAL CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS DAY! It was 1962, the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and American spy planes had recently noticed newly constructed nuclear missile silos in
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/22/25 – CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS DAY! Read More »
There are several reasons why we have parades in his honor, and bridges named after Kazimierz Michał Wacław Wiktor Pułaski (1745-1779), or, as Americans call him; Pulaski. We just don’t know them. Still, we like to celebrate GENERAL PULASKI MEMORIAL DAY! Certainly one reason has to be that debonaire matinee idol mustache, and another was
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/11/25 – GENERAL PULASKI MEMORIAL DAY! Read More »
No, you don’t eat it. The last thing you want to do is eat that stuff. Nothing so dense and heavy can possibly be classified as food. If you notice, it’s 2 days after Christmas and no one’s even unwrapped it yet, not even on NATIONAL FRUIT CAKE DAY! Today is the day you decide
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 12/27/22 – FRUIT CAKE DAY! Read More »
It was 1793 and France was torn by a bloody revolution that saw the ranks of the aristocracy considerably thinned by a peasantry fed up with subsidizing the decadent wealthy while they starved. The French Revolution had been brewing for decades, but what lit the powder keg that made everything go kablooey were the remarks of
TODAY’S NATIONAL DAY, 10/16/20 – “HOW’S THE CAKE, MARIE?” DAY! Read More »
